Cleartrip is disrupting the way India travels. Driving profitable growth is part of our core goals with the Business Finance team supporting the Growth org in day-to-day planning, execution, measurement across growth levers and increasing ROI across campaigns and channels. Your role will involve partnering with business teams to achieve both top-line and bottom-line targets, driving discussions related to revenue management and working capital, and taking ownership of cost reduction methods. You will also monitor financial and business KPIs, analyze trends, and provide recommendations for decision making. The ideal candidate should have 5-6 years of finance experience, preferably in the travel or consumer internet business, and possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Deputy General Manager - Business Finance
The Stage/ The Gig: Category Business Finance:
Cleartrip is disrupting the way India travels. Driving Profitable growth is part of our core goals with the Business Finance team supporting the Growth org in day-to-day planning, execution, measurement across growth levers and increasing ROI across campaigns and channels.
At Cleartrip, there is a high focus on Impact and Ownership which allows for freedom to experiment and innovate.
Your Role:
- Business Partnering
- Partner with business teams (Verticals: Air, Hotels, Packages etc & Horizontals: Growth Marketing, Platform-Product & Tech, Customer Experience, Bank Alliances, Accounting, Legal & Taxation etc) to achieve both top-line and bottom-line targets
- Independently drive discussions with business teams related to revenue management, pricing & discounts and working capital with a clear view on path to profitability
- Work closely with relevant teams and take complete ownership of sustainable cost reduction methods, policy formulation & standardization in line with industry benchmarks
- Work with Product and Tech teams to identify and solve business problems, quantify the impact of product features/ tech interventions, and drive the post implementation roadmap
- Drive strategies around user growth, customer share, organic customer growth to build a healthy Top of the Funnel
- Review and analyse historical business trends, understand demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop financial models, and evaluate business outcomes
- Business Reporting
- Continuously monitor financial and business KPIs, highlight trends and analyse causes of variance
- Keenly follow the competitive landscape and feed management with relevant intelligence
- Monitor competitor activity and strategies to benchmark performance and identifying improvement areas
- Build and manage financial models for forecasting, variance analysis and problem solving
- Facilitate regular business review meetings: present key insights and provide recommendations for decision making and be the Source of Truth wrt business metrics
Must Have Skills:
- Finance Professional with 5-6 years of experience, preferably in the Travel or Consumer Internet Business
- Experience in financial analysis, working with large amounts of data and an ability to drive actionable insights out of data preferably on QlikView, Tableu or any other BI tools
- Experience in Quarterly and Monthly Financial reporting, annual budgeting and forecasting process
- Prior experience in designing MIS to facilitate business performance reviewing
- Problem Solving Ability while working with cross functional teams
Open Positions: 1
Skills Required:
Business finance, Financial Planning, Financial Reporting
Location: Bangalore,Karnataka
Education/Qualification:
Graduate/ Post Graduate in Finance or enginnering
Desirable Skills:
Financial Analysis, Business finance, Category Finance Management
Years Of Exp: 4 to 8 Years
